Center for Responsive Politics OpenSecrets.org Editor's Note: A good website to know about. A lot of data on lobbying available. Lobbying Database In addition to campaign contributions to elected officials and candidates, companies, labor unions, and other organizations spend billions of dollars each year to lobby Congress and federal agencies. Some special interests More
Bruce Gagnon Veteran, Organizer: b. 1952 "The role of the U.S. in the new world corporate order is going to be to export security. That means endless wars and weapons in space. The Pentagon will send our kids off to foreign lands to suppress opposition to corporate globalization. How will we ever end America’s addiction to More
A recent poll, for instance, by Public Policy Polling, released on Nov. 20, found that voters, by an “overwhelming margin,” support expanded Social Security benefits, not cuts in the 77-year-old New Deal program. Dave Lindorff Thursday 21 November 2013 NationofChange.orgWhile I cannot claim to be an expert on the retirement systems of other nations, it is More
Mass Media Helps Keep Americans in the Dark About US Foreign Policy By Mark Weisbrot 06 August 2013 The Guardian | Op-Ed via truthout.org Juana Brito prays over the bodies of her father and an unidentified youth, both killed by Guatemalan soldiers in the civil war 30 years ago, as a team from the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation More
And Then There Was One> Imperial Gigantism and the Decline of Planet Earth By Tom Engelhardt May 7, 2013 TomDispatch.com It stretched from the Caspian to the Baltic Sea, from the middle of Europe to the Kurile Islands in the Pacific, from Siberia to Central Asia. Its nuclear arsenal held 45,000 warheads, and its military had five million troops under More
Forget Petraeus: The Real Scandal Is Generals’ Corrupt Weapons Procurement Wednesday, 14 November 2012 17:48By Dina Rasor, Truthout | Solutions (Photo: The U.S. Army / Flickr) It is remarkable what a sex scandal can do in Washington. This one is especially juicy because it concerns a retired military general who had obtained almost god-like status in military, media and More
Forget Petraeus: The Real Scandal Is Generals’ Corrupt Weapons Procurement Wednesday, 14 November 2012 17:48By Dina Rasor, Truthout | Solutions (Photo: The U.S. Army / Flickr) It is remarkable what a sex scandal can do in Washington. This one is especially juicy because it concerns a retired military general who had obtained almost god-like status in military, media and More
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US to okay $1 billion for Israeli missile projects Israeli Minister for Military Affairs Ehud Barak (L) visits an Iron Dome launcher stationed close to the southern city of Ashkelon, August 21, 2011. Tue May 8, 2012 3:47AM GMT PressTV The US House of Representatives is set to allocate nearly USD one billion for More
Three Words: NATO War Crimes Posted on April 5, 2012 by comehomeamerica by Joe Scarry of Scarry Thoughts. Today’s Chicago Tribune featured an exchange between Eric Zorn and Andy Thayer on why people are protesting NATO. It’s important that people are turning to the substance of the protests against NATO, particularly in a mainstream media outlet. It’s More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzWzLsUyXms&w=420&h=315] Uploaded by TheBigPictureRT on Apr 3, 2012 Lynn Parramore, Contributing Editor-Alternet joins Thom Hartmann. Corporations in America used to care about the best interests of their communities and country - but their role in society has changed. How have corporations become a predatory monster - preying on Americans and their wallets? Join Us! Subscribe to WAMMToday More
Occupy Innovation: Neither the Military Nor the Market Does by: Gregg Levine Saturday 21 January 2012 Truthout | News Analysis Actress Anne Hathaway marches with demonstrators on the two-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. (Photo: Elana Levin) Two days after thousands of police broke up the around-the-clock occupation of New York’s Zuccotti Park, tens of thousands More
